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July 9, 1940

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David B. Frohnmayer

1940David B. Frohnmayer, American lawyer and politician, 12th Oregon Attorney General (died 2015)[โ€ ]

David Braden Frohnmayer was an American attorney, politician, and academic administrator from Oregon. He was the 15th president of the University of Oregon, serving from 1994 to 2009. His tenure as president was the second-longest after John Wesley Johnson. He was the first native Oregonian to run the University of Oregon. Frohnmayer previously served as Oregon Attorney General from 1981 to 1991, and subsequently served as dean at the University of Oregon School of Law before serving as president of the university. He served in an of counsel attorney role with the Oregon law firm, Harrang Long Gary Rudnick P.C.

1940Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American psychoanalyst and theorist (died 2010)[โ€ ]

Eugene Victor Wolfenstein was an American social theorist, practicing psychoanalyst, and a professor of political science at University of California, Los Angeles.

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Headlines from July 9, 1940

R.A.F. UNITS STAGE SHARP RETALIATION; Bombings in Reich as Far as Berlin Are Indicated--Nazis Lose 8 Planes in Britain Nazi Glide Bombing Noted R.A.F. UNITS STAGE SHARP RETALIATION Direct Hit on Butcher Shop Fights Heard Over British Towns Berlin Reports Factories Bombed

By Robert P. Post Special Cable To the New York Times

German planes bomb southwest to northeast coast area; 8 reptd shot down; 112 bombs dropped on northeast town; planes attack Brit convoy, Eng Channel; Brit deny German claim that 10 Brit planes were shot down

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